A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

But man is not made for defeat,'he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Dream is not that you see in the sleep; dream is that does not allow you to sleep.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

You have committed a double mistake, firstly by not keeping the engagement yesterday and secondly, by coming when you were not expected.

Failure is an event not a person

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Man knows so much and does so little.